Re: MozillaZine :-/

2002-03-16 Thread gavin long
> Also on CNET's download comments, it has been mentioned by CNET people > that Netscape champions will flood the comment board on purpose, giving > their product 5-star ratings across the board to boost thier stature. Microsoft have been caught several times doing the same thing. Ditto Quake

Re: No need to thank me

2002-03-05 Thread gavin long
JTK wrote: > You'll notice that my bitching finally got AOL to add the two-line > "percent complete in the download progress box title" fix that I posted > a while back. For those who want to know who really deserves the credit, three cheers for Bill Law, who appears to have had some assistanc

Re: pop-ups at nytimes.com not killed

2002-03-05 Thread gavin long
jon wrote: > It is nytimes trying to sneak past all popup blockers. Yeah. I've had one or two others sneak by, too. This kind of thing is always going to be an arms race... -- gav

Re: XML files

2002-03-04 Thread gavin long
> There's an RFE bug out (too lazy to look up the number) about > adding a "default" style sheet IE-style to be used when no other sheet > is called. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64945 If you want to view the document as a tree, try the DOM Inspector. -- gav

Re: Mozilla problem

2002-03-04 Thread gavin long
> 1) RFC 1945 does discribe HTTP 1.0 protocol. But makes no mention of > the actions we are looking at. There is a great deal of 'content' that > can fit in the HTTP protocol. A little more searching legwork reveals that I was actually thinking of RFC 2616, sections 14.9.1 and 2, the cache-c

Re: Mozilla problem

2002-03-02 Thread gavin long
Victor Probo wrote: > I understand the implications of the browser > storing/obscurring/encryptiong data to make the user's life easier. > What I am asking for are pointers to the API (Application Programming > Interface) so I know what those headers are, or how to get the PSM to > pass p

Re: Memory Leaks in Mozilla

2002-02-27 Thread gavin long
gavin long wrote: > JTK wrote: >> mdakin wrote: >> >>> well, its obvious that he used your name to show how it feels like. Some >>> people like it, some not. >> >> Some people like being criticized and/or patronized? > > That goes without

Re: Memory Leaks in Mozilla

2002-02-27 Thread gavin long
JTK wrote: > mdakin wrote: > >>>Why do you always use my name when criticizing/patronizing me, Gavin? >>>What would you prefer I call the guy, "pal"? "Bucko"? "Dude"? "Senor >>>Mozillarista"? Did I state a preference? I asked a simple question, which you haven't answered. >>well, its obvio

Re: Memory Leaks in Mozilla

2002-02-27 Thread gavin long
Parish wrote: > JTK wrote: >> gavin long wrote: >>> >>> Why do you always use people's first names when criticising/patronising >>> them, Gary? >> >> Why do you always use my name when criticizing/patronizing me, Gavin? I'd be intrigued

Re: Mozilla problem

2002-02-27 Thread gavin long
Victor Probo wrote: > Can you be a bit more specific about the definition of "disable PSM"? > Can you point to any API documentation for this PSM capability? I have > been surprised about private features of the PSM twice now in 2 weeks. > One would hope that all of this would be up front, to

Re: Memory Leaks in Mozilla

2002-02-26 Thread gavin long
>>>We are testing Mozilla in our Win 32 application which run "unattended >>>24 hours a day" and have found a memory leak. Even a few bytes leak will >>>cause an application crash and this is not acceptable in our >>>environment. Much as I am fond of Moz, I doubt it's going to be able to run una

Re: Movable, customizable toolbars.

2002-02-17 Thread gavin long
Matthew Thomas wrote: > gavin long wrote: > >>>Read here http://mpt.phrasewise.com/stories/storyReader$35 >>>Interesting reading about the lack of usability in Mozilla. At least >>>I agree with the author. >>> >>That's good news. MPT is the

Re: Movable, customizable toolbars.

2002-02-16 Thread gavin long
> My initial point was that there is much effort in making Mozilla > skinnable, with a solid API foundation to work with, but most users > would benefit from customizable toolbars instead of skins. I believe that "skinability" was mostly a side-effect of the development of the cross-platform U

Re: Movable, customizable toolbars.

2002-02-15 Thread gavin long
> Read here http://mpt.phrasewise.com/stories/storyReader$35 > Interesting reading about the lack of usability in Mozilla. At least I > agree with the author. That's good news. MPT is the owner of the User Interface Design component. He's well placed to get these fixed. -- gav

Re: Real Player 8

2002-02-15 Thread gavin long
>> What OS are you using? > > His email did say: > > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90;... > > So I am guessing Windoze. Win9x 4.9 is WinME, I believe -- gav

Re: Movable, customizable toolbars.

2002-02-15 Thread gavin long
David Tenser wrote: > One thing that I've always thought of as a very simple, yet very useful > feature that Mozilla lacks: The ability to add/remove buttons to the > toolbar(s) and to drag/move toolbars, address fields, menus, etc. > > Even simple crappy Wordpad has this functionality (at leas

Re: Speed and size

2002-02-15 Thread gavin long
David Tenser wrote: > That's what I'm trying to ask. On my Mozilla, it underlines words > starting and ending with _underscores_ ... My question is where that is > specified! Are there any CSS file that holds these formatting rules? I don't know, but this page : http://www.hmetzger.de/net6e.ht

Re: irc.mozilla.org

2002-02-07 Thread gavin long
Christian Biesinger wrote: [useful clarification and correction] Thanks for that. Rules of Usenet, no 94. When you make an ill-informed post on a technical subject, someone will correct you very quickly. Except when they don't, of course. :) -- gav

Re: irc.mozilla.org

2002-02-07 Thread gavin long
Christian Biesinger wrote: > Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > >> [mozilla] *** Banned: Wingate proxy (2002/02/07 02.28) > > Well, this message means that the Wingate port is open on the computer > you're loggin in from. > > If you think you shouldn't be banned, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your >

Re: Pages that refresh

2002-02-06 Thread gavin long
Patrick Gallagher wrote: > I noticed that in recent nightlies pages with an autorefresh are going > wonky - they refresh every couple seconds regardless of how often the > page specifies... > > Is there a bug on this? http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116361 -- gav

Re: Default paper size

2002-02-05 Thread gavin long
> I don't know about PC/UNIX side of things but, Page size (Print) Mac is > the responsibility of the print Driver/Chooser file for the printer. Yup. Just had a quick poke around in win32, and the paper size was definitely handled by the windows/print driver side, not by Moz. -- gav

Re: #1 Mozilla Problem

2002-01-24 Thread gavin long
>>> Mozilla will never seriously take off with >>> respect to market share. >> >> That sounds like a bullshit argument. Logically, it's utter crap. Come >> up with something better. > > Are you an idiot, or just acting like one? No, he's not. I lose count of the number of posts in newsgroups/

Re: Netscape Sues Microsoft

2002-01-23 Thread gavin long
JTK wrote: > Right, the same non-existent "WAA!!! I couldn't compete with > Microsoft! I didn't even try to!" basis. Thereby proving that he's either not read the findings of fact, or chose not to believe them. -- gav

Re: Lies, damn lies, and MozillaZine?

2002-01-20 Thread gavin long
Ryan wrote: [snip rant] > So what gives? If you've been following MozillaZine for the last fortnight or so, you'll know that they're busy tearing the whole site apart and re-assembling it. I believe that this is being done in the spare time of one person. Now, it's not a huge site, but it's

Re: Save Directory Problem

2002-01-19 Thread gavin long
David Simpson wrote: [snip] A bug, whose number escapes me right now. Fixed in the recent nightlies, and the fix should be in 0.9.8. "Fixed" meaning it now remembers where you put stuff last time. Some people have different definitions of "fixed", which may or may not get implemented in the

Re: There is a download problem

2002-01-14 Thread gavin long
cr wrote: > How about this? > > While the dialog box is up begin saving the file to some temporary > place. If the file system runs out of space, just "pause" the download > at this point. If the "temporary place" is on the same disk/partition/whatever as whatever the system uses for ITS tempo

Re: Alternative JVM to use with Mozilla

2002-01-14 Thread gavin long
Vincent Nicolas wrote: > It is nevertheless strange that MS JVM is so quicker than Sun one ! > Sun has created Java but they are not very good so develop a decent JVM... > Please, M. Sun, do something ! Quicker? Maybe, maybe not. I have no data. However, the MS one is _not_ a decent JVM, as

Re: "save as" option doesn't work the way it should

2002-01-12 Thread gavin long
Steffen Motzer wrote: > If I try to download anything by using the "save as" option, Mozilla > (0.9.7) replaces the real filename (which is part of the URL) with the > description used in the href link! http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115176 > I don't want to manually fix the filen

Re: Moz 0.97 (and 0.95) - Java support?

2002-01-06 Thread gavin long
Erik Harris wrote: > BTW, it might be worth noting that "your profile directory" is not located > within the Mozilla directory structure, which is the intuitive place for > those of us who have been using PC's for awhile. I looked around for it for > a little while before doing a search for the

Re: Microsoft Q & A

2002-01-06 Thread gavin long
>> From a user perspective, later releases of IE4 were >> "better" than NS4.x >>in several ways, primarily stability. > > I couldn't stand IE4, which is why I went to Nestscape 4. That's _your_ opinion. Many disagree with you. I abandoned NS4.x about 14 months ago, because Mozilla was mor

Re: Microsoft Q & A

2002-01-06 Thread gavin long
>>Microsoft has a monopoloy in several areas, but bad >>HTML isn't one of them. >> >>There are millions of people out there who can do it all on >>their own in notepad (or vi, for that matter, this is >>OS-agnostic) without any help from Frontpage whatsoever. > > I am sure that there are, I just

Re: Microsoft Q & A

2002-01-06 Thread gavin long
JTK wrote: > Water under the proverbial bridge. What's AOL I mean the Mozilla > community doing *now* to get Mozilla more than 0.75% market share? If you refer back to the source of that statistic, you'll find it's now up to 0.85%. Also remember that it is nothing more than a statistic. It

Re: themes on-the-fly

2002-01-05 Thread gavin long
>>> I'm running build 2002010403 and I just stumbled across a cool bonus. >>> This build allows switching chromes without restarting Mozilla. >>> Thanks to whoever implemented this handy feature. I hope it stays in >>> future builds. >> >> I noticed this cool feature too, unfortunately in my

Re: Webpage not working correctly under NS6 (havn't tried NS4)

2002-01-05 Thread gavin long
Jonas Jørgensen wrote: > gavin long wrote: >> I can't test in any other browsers, but I suspect that this should >> also work in other recent browsers (since it's W3C standard DOM) > > It is not. innerHTML has never been part of any W3C recommendation.

Re: Microsoft Q & A

2002-01-05 Thread gavin long
Christopher Jahn wrote: > MS doesn't SELL their browser, they don't actually make > a DIME off of it. The ONLY reason that IE has market dominance > is because MicroSoft illegally used its monopoly power. replace "The ONLY reason" with "One of the reasons". From a user perspective, later

Re: Microsoft Q & A

2002-01-05 Thread gavin long
Christopher Jahn wrote: > Every page that has failed to render properly in those posts was > created in FrontPage, without exception. Um, no? Microsoft has a monopoloy in several areas, but bad HTML isn't one of them. There are millions of people out there who can do it all on their own i

Re: Webpage not working correctly under NS6 (havn't tried NS4)

2002-01-05 Thread gavin long
Mark Gillespie wrote: > My webpage works fine under IE4/5, but there is some simple javascript that > does not work (at all) under NS6.2 (havn't tried NS4.x, as I don't have it > loaded) > > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.gillespie/ > > Basically, the 5 links in the blue bar at the top, shou

Re: About Secure Pages etc?

2002-01-04 Thread gavin long
> Some sites encrypt pages after you enter the info. I"m not sure how > they do this, but I remember noticing this when I ordered some stuff > with BMG Music. This can be done, IIRC, by having an insecure page[1], which POSTs data to an HTTPS url. [1] why bother sending the FORM over a secu

Re: Microsoft Q & A

2002-01-03 Thread gavin long
> I really HATE comments taken out of context and then criticized. My apologies for any misinterpretation, I should have trimmed more zealously. I was commenting only on the text immediately before mine. Hey, it was the day after the party, I wasn't exactly on tip-top mental form. More appr

Re: Long menu problem

2002-01-02 Thread gavin long
Steven wrote: > In mail & News when I select a folder and choose properties I > get a dialog window with a menu to set the character encoding. > This menu is too long for my monitor (which is 960 pixels high) > and won't scroll. So it is impossible to set the character encoding > to Western... I

Re: Why can't moz save text as plain text?

2002-01-01 Thread gavin long
Dale wrote: >Thankfully, unlike Netscape 6.x, Mozilla seems to co-exist > nicely with Netscape 4.xx (I'm using v4.78). However, it has > one "feature" that pretty much guarantees that I'll not fully > switch over. Netscape, before v6.x, allowed one to save the > text from a page simply

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread gavin long
JTK wrote: > But "and rising"? I don't think so - it was higher than this the last > time I saw some stats like a year ago. Not much mind you, but higher > than 0.75%. Stats depend hugely upon how they are gathered. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool. Mozilla (including N6) from the "U

Re: Microsoft Q & A

2002-01-01 Thread gavin long
>>And because they lost market share becaue web designers hated >>designing TWO versions of a page. > > I thought that Netscape lost market share because they released a grossly > buggy browser (I say this as a staunch netscape user) which forced people > away from using Netscape, combined wit

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread gavin long
> The best part of JTK ran down his mama's thigh. While I have no love for JTK myself, can we try to keep things civilised in here? > I don't know why he's allowed to post here - all he does is > denigrate the product and the Organizations goals. The downside of freedom of speech, unfortuna

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread gavin long
> Nobody's posted numbers recently, I'd love to see how low the percentage > is these days. (source: http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm) In the US : 0.75% of hits, and rising. In the UK : 1.2% of hits, and rising. For reference, Opera has 0.4% and 0.1%, respectively. As always, these

Re: Mozilla crash/boom on image map

2001-12-30 Thread gavin long
>> Check bug 114377, that bug relates to the crash in question. >> > Do the latest nightlies still have this? It's still in 2001122803, and no sign of a fix in the bug. It's gaining duplicates fairly rapidly, so it should get some attention soon. -- gav

Re: Access to the port number given has been disabled for security reasons

2001-12-27 Thread gavin long
JTK wrote: > Please stop this sub-juvenile BS. > [...] you're sadly mistaken if you think you're doing > anything other than making an abhorrent ass of yourself. I could repeat that right back at you and I think most of the readers here would agree with me. But that's contrary to the news

Re: It's December 14th again!

2001-12-21 Thread gavin long
JTK wrote: > Pratik wrote: > >> > > Crap huh? We back to "it's all a dream" now? > >>The question still stands. Did you try out what the bug suggests? Yes or >>No? > > No. You're hurling abuse at the one person in here who is trying to help you? And not bothering to find out if what h

Re: Getting Netscape/Mozilla to force a connection (Win32)

2001-12-19 Thread Gavin Long
Mark Gillespie wrote: > I tried both Mozilla & Netscape6.2, and can't figure out for the life of, > why neither of these force windows to connect to my ISP. > > I have looked in all the settings. Arthur has already provided details of how to do this[1], so I'm just going to waffle a bit about

Re: Using Nightlies

2001-12-14 Thread gavin long
Arthur wrote: > [...] I 've learned myself (sorry, couldn't figure out the past > tense of To Teach) ...I've taught myself... English isn't exactly an easy language, at the best of times. Don't worry, you're doing much better than my dutch. -- gav

Re: Using Nightlies

2001-12-14 Thread gavin long
>>No, I can d/l them. I grabbed one yesterday. I just want to clarify how >>to install them since they don't include an installer (to be expected, I >>know). > > Sure they do. Go here: > http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/ and its > "mozilla-win32-installer-sea.exe". The "-sea" is

Re: BUG 41924: Change how layout handles broken images (alt text)

2001-12-07 Thread gavin long
Sierk Bornemann wrote: > Using the nightly builds since months, I must still see, that the bug > filed with http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41924 still isn't > fixed. I think, this is bad, since we are at a high level stadium near > the 'golden' 1.0 release. That bug is far from

Re: How do I close a bugzilla account? HELP!

2001-12-07 Thread gavin long
Simon Montagu wrote: > Patrick Taylor Ramsey wrote: > > >> Gavin Long wrote: >> >>> Option 1) remove yourself from he CC list of bugs that you don't >>> care about. [snippage] >> >> I think that is what I will do. I guess I

Re: WTF! mozilla,

2001-12-07 Thread gavin long
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Chocobo_greens wrote: > WTF is with the mozilla logo? I use linux, i've used it for 3-4 years now, and I1 know NS 4.7 is not the greatest browser, now that mozilla is moving towards 1, i want to install it, but i really cant stand having a red st

Re: How do I close a bugzilla account? HELP!

2001-12-05 Thread Gavin Long
Patrick Taylor Ramsey wrote: > I knew that I didn't know what I was doing, but I didn't know to what > extent that was true. When I signed up with bugzilla I just wanted to > report a few bugs that I had encountered in a milestone build (not having > put two and two together and realized that

Re: Simple things (visual, usability bugs) ?

2001-12-01 Thread Gavin Long
>> 2. In the list boxes inside preferences (those with 2 colums), the >> grid seperating the data cells does not match up with the header >> cells. The column divider is offset to the left by a few pixels. >> > I find this annoying as well. I think the problem is that the table code > doesn't

Re: Block images that come from specific sites

2001-11-21 Thread gavin long
ZZT wrote: > is that possible? For instance block all images that come from > http://ad.doubleclick.net. Yes. Once you have a page with such an image, right-click[1] on the image->block images from this server. [1] or whatever you do to invoke the context menu in your GUI of choice. [follow

Re: Print Preview - how do I go back?

2001-11-21 Thread gavin long
Geraint Edwards wrote: [print preview] > 2. Some CSS settings are missed (will do some more investigation). Be aware that CSS may get handled differently depending on the media : it is possible to define a style sheet that will give a completely different appearance on the printed page to tha

Re: Fonts problem in 0.9.6

2001-11-21 Thread gavin long
Bernard Perrot wrote: > Just installed mozilla 0.9.6 (linux box, RH7.1) : the fonts are not > correct, and if I try the fonts setting in preferences menu, it refuse > other setting than iso8859-3 ... (8 points) ??? This is completly new... > (upgrading from 0.9.4) IIRC, there were quite a fe

Re: Mozilla 0.9.6

2001-11-21 Thread gavin long
WDA wrote: > I might be crazy but in my opinion, Mozilla Build ID: 200808, works > better than Mozilla 0.9.6. 0.9.6 branched from the trunk on or about 9 Nov 2001. Therefore the 18 Nov trunk build can be regarded as considerably "newer" than 0.9.6 -- gav

Re: FTP-Difference: latest <--> latest-0.9.6

2001-11-19 Thread gavin long
Scott Tran wrote: > Marc Schirrmacher wrote: >> But where are the differences between /latest /latest-trunk and >> /latest-statictrunk? >> Whouh! This FTP seems to be like BugZilla: *Not for Newbies* (like me ;) > > I dunno what statictrunk is but the latest-statictrunk, would contain > the lat

Re: how to control font sizes for menu's and dialogs

2001-11-16 Thread gavin long
flacco wrote: >>> does anyone know how to increase the size of the fonts used for menus >>> and dialogs used by mozilla? > > If you're using GNOME desktop on Linux, I believe changes made to fonts > in your GTK themes also propagate to Mozilla. Similarly, Moz follows your desktop settings in

Re: how to "undo" print preview?

2001-11-12 Thread Gavin Long
>>>I thought print preview was part of the print Driver. >> >>There is no resemblence to what you describe, and what mozilla does with >>Print Preview on Windows. There is no printer dialog involved at all. > > There is no print Preview through the Print Command on Windows? Hmmm. Nope. On

Re: MSN gags at Mozilla 0.9.5

2001-10-26 Thread gavin long
Al Rider wrote: > Get use to it. MS has essentially "won" the law suit and will only get > more agressive in stifling competition from now on. [asbestos suit on] Ahem. They had the "remedy" overturned, and the judge removed from the case. The verdict (guilty) still stands. Arguments (lega

Re: Mozilla Bug Week - October 27th to November 4th

2001-10-24 Thread gavin long
>> I would be interested help the Moz project but I need it to work on the >> Borland compiler. > > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62773 > > Don't hold your breath :( I spoke too soon. Having looked at the bug again, after months of silence, there's been some activity in the las

Re: Mozilla Bug Week - October 27th to November 4th

2001-10-24 Thread gavin long
Rob Ward wrote: > I would be interested help the Moz project but I need it to work on the > Borland compiler. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62773 Don't hold your breath :( -- gav

Re: problems with javascript on http://www.deezire.net/

2001-10-22 Thread gavin long
Jonathan Wilson wrote: > It doesnt work the way its supposed to, I notice its using document.all > Its not my site but I am good friends with the owner, can someone > suggest how to rewrite this code to work under mozilla, I will then pass > the info on to the site owner. http://www.scottandre

Re: Feature Request "JAVASCRIPT"

2001-10-18 Thread Gavin Long
Tom St Denis wrote: > Can I request that an OPTION [not forced] be installed where mozilla is > more verbose about errors and warnings? And not like MSIE which gives > line numbers [which never correspond]. Try Tasks->tools->javascript console. on 0.9.5 and later, try tasks->tools->javascri

Re: Bugzilla Etiquette

2001-10-18 Thread Gavin Long
Henri Sivonen wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>(my usual problem area is DOM/Javascript stuff) > > If you are unsure, DOM is a better guess. (Real JS engine bugs are quite > rare.) That's where the problem STARTS. Which DOM? That said, I usually just do

Re: No dial-up w mozilla?

2001-09-25 Thread Gavin Long
> Why can't my mozilla 0.9.4 open the dial-up connection automatically? I > always have to do it manually. w2k; sp2, 56k mode line. > Any hints to set up ? I believe you need to play with the Networking/Dial-Up Networking settings in Windows so that it notices that a program is trying to acces

Re: Why has it been implemented this slow way

2001-09-20 Thread gavin long
Wim Roffel wrote: > Consider the following a webpage: [snip] > In Mozilla you will see a counter going rather slowly from 1 to 1000. In IE > you will only see the figure 1000 after a short wait. > > I suspect that this is major reason why Mozilla is so slow when you have > many input fields. N

Re: how to change string that "navigator.appVersion" returns?

2001-08-31 Thread Gavin Long
> just check for document.all? That's how I > would ensure an IE only site And come a cropper when the user has a browser that partially (or better) implements document.all. I believe Opera does so, for a start. Browser sniffing by looking for DOM support is not at all reliable. -- gav

Re: HELP! I blocked the worng image server!

2001-08-31 Thread Gavin Long
> Now, if it could just get to where managing > pop-ups and cookies was that easy, it'll easily > overtake Microspam's Exploder! go have a read of http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/configPolicy.html and say bye-bye to pop-ups. -- gav

Re: Awful fonts at Hotmail

2001-08-16 Thread Gavin Long
Yoda McAwips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I'm using Mozilla under RH Linux 7.1 with XF86 4.0.2, TT fonts and > anti-aliasing enabled. Hotmail's site looks terrible under Mozilla and > Netscape. It looks very good in Konqueror 2.1.1. > > Anyo

Re: Where are the bookmarks ??

2001-08-09 Thread Gavin Long
> I have NS 6.1 PR1 and I have TONS of bookmarks. With previous versions > of NS I could easily copy the bookmarks.html file to my home pc or > wherever and have my links wherever I need them. I can't find any such > file for NS 6, have they done away with it ? Are we now stuck with a > rotten Fav

Re: Cache bugs and memory use and performance

2001-08-08 Thread Gavin Long
> - MailNews performance > In .9.3 most of the very annoying bugs and crashes have finally been > squashed in the MailNews section, but it is the slowest mail program by > far of the major email clients for Windows. [snip] This is being worked on. IIRC, there has been a "mail/news performance br

Re: Mozilla in MS Internet Explorer 6?

2001-08-01 Thread Gavin Long
> Is the new Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 preview release > based on Mozilla 4.0? I had an error while connecting with > IE6 to IIS on my Windows 2000 machine, and IE reported the > browser as Mozilla 4.0 (IE 6.0 compatable), or something > like that in the error report. No it isn't. Many brows

Re: [RFE] Option for new navigator window to open *current* page (not home page)

2001-07-26 Thread Gavin Long
> I don't think this should be a preference. Sometimes I find myself > wanting to open a new empty browser, Mozilla style, and sometimes > wanting to "clone" the currently open state with all the back and > forward history still in place, IE style. Ideally these should be two > separate actions.

Re: certificate authorities certificates

2001-07-24 Thread Gavin Long
Pratik wrote... > > I'm using Netscape 6.01 as supplied by Sun for x86 Solaris 8. > > Netscape 6.01 is quite outdated,. I'd sugget you grab hold of at > least NS6.1 and see if the bug persists. Better still get the > latest Mozilla milestone or nightly build. Pretty sure such a > bug would have be

Re: Install failure

2001-07-23 Thread Gavin Long
Andrew Dale wrote... > Can no longer run or install Mozilla - DrWatson kicks in every time. > Have tried all possible variants. > 0.9.2 was working until I added a theme (I won't say which) which failed > to install automatically on download. > > Have removed totally with CleanSweep, run RegEdit a

Re: Talkback reports

2001-07-19 Thread Gavin Long
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote... > Supposedly they are logged at a special server. And each and everyone > (every minute detail) is gone over with a fine tooth comb. The Talkback reports can definitely lead to bugzilla logs, and influence which bugs get marked "topcrash" I suspect that all the

Re: 0.27 + 0.03 = 0.300000000004 ???

2001-07-18 Thread Gavin Long
Thomas wrote... > Jerry Park wrote: > > Thomas wrote: > > > >> shouldn't the result after adding 0.03 to 0.27 be 0.3 ??? > > > > No. Floating point arithmetic doesn't work that way. A fraction which > > may be finite in one base may be a 'repeating decimal' in another base. > > Conversion from bas

Re: about criticising other poster's language skills

2001-07-11 Thread Gavin Long
-- gav Playing: Deus Ex; TFC1.5; Just Read: The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Alan Moore et al.; Guilty Pleasures, Laurell Hamilton; A Good Old-Fashioned Future, Bruce Sterling;

Re: SIG formatting . . html? text?

2001-07-04 Thread Gavin Long
> > Now returning you to our scheduled holy war on HTML vs. plain text > > posting. > > > > Those of you wanting to join in our regular holy war re: top vs. bottom > > quoting should see the thread "Mozilla should put the Signature ABOVE..." > > elsewhere in this group. > > > LOL, let's also start

Re: SIG formatting . . html? text?

2001-07-04 Thread Gavin Long
[reply posted to n.p.m.general only - watch the crossposting, people] > > And even in the rest of the world, many folks pay: > > by the minute for the phone connection > > By the minute for the INTERNET connection > > and by the kilobyte for the download. > > > > Adding a flowered background or s

Re: looping animations: how can I make them die?

2001-07-04 Thread Gavin Long
> > All I want is for looping animations to not loop... > > In Mozilla, the latest nightlies at least: > > Edit->Preferences->Privacy and Security->Images-> > "Animated images should loop:" FYI, it's in 0.9.2, as well. -- gav Playing: OPFor; TFC1.5; Tachyon: The Fringe; Now Reading: A Good Old-

Re: Can I use Code Warrior for Win32 instead of Visual C++?

2001-06-28 Thread Gavin Long
Greg Miller wrote : > D. Alvarado wrote: > > > I was just wondering if Code Warrior for Windows can be > > used instead of Visual C++ for developing Mozilla on a Win32 > > platform. If possible, what complications does this add to > > buidling the code? > > Don't have a bug number, but I rec

Re: Netscape 6.1 instead of 6.5?

2001-06-12 Thread Gavin Long
jesus X wrote > JTK wrote: > > Carlfish wrote: > > > HTH, HAND, *plonk* > > Anyway, didn't you "*plonk*" me already Charlie? > > When people reply to you, that's a good sign you haven't been plonked yet. This particular troll has changed his (faked) e-mail address more than once, presumably _beca

Re: Netscape has pulled secnews.netscape.com service

2001-06-11 Thread Gavin Long
Andie wrote: > Jay Garcia wrote: [mass snippage] > > > Anyways, THE caretaker of the machine was away for a few days and > > returned today. When he reads my email I'm sure the server will be back > > online asap. > > Port 563 is still not responding as of now. Jay's message was posted at approx

Re: Mozilla (Netscape), AOL, and WinXP

2001-06-08 Thread Gavin Long
Pratik Solanki wrote > DeMoN_LaG wrote: > > > > MS will not release IE for any other OS. > > MS has an IE 5 version that runs on Solaris and HP-UX. Many of the documentation pages don't appear to have been updated since 1999. Call me a cynic, but it looks like a token effort to appease the cri

Re: Mozilla (Netscape), AOL, and WinXP

2001-06-08 Thread Gavin Long
[Apologies for second-gen reply, but the troll is kill-filed. JTK, apologies in advance if this is mis-attributed but, somehow, I doubt that it is] > JTK wrote: > > > I guess last month, according to another respondent to your > > anti-MS religious rantings. LOL. JTK accusing people of "anti-X

Re: JS auf Mozilla

2001-06-07 Thread Gavin Long
[English version below/Englische Version unter] (traurig, spreche ich Deutsches nicht, so Übersetzung durch babelfish.altavista.com), > if (document.layers) { >obj.visibility = "show"; > } > > if (document.all) { > obj.style.visibility = "visible"; > } Dieses arbeitet nicht in Mozilla, ve

Re: Ban The B Word! - Campaign Launch

2001-05-15 Thread Gavin Long
Gene Voelker wrote : > Oddly enough, this sort of post has frequented warbirds newsgroups. In > reference to the swastikas on german planes. > > It has been pointed out that polish planes used a swastika with a blue tone. [snip] > In any case, several things are obvious: > > 1-Swastikas

Re: Open button?

2001-05-08 Thread Gavin Long
David Hallowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Ken wrote: > > > alt-o actually, in X Windows. This button makes like a lot easer for > > copying and pasting in X. > > You're thinking of Netscape 4.x not mozilla which is what the group is > abou

Re: DHTML in Netscape v6

2001-04-27 Thread Gavin Long
(original post was cross-posted all over the show, I'm replying in N.P.General and N.P.M.General only) Guy Shurmer wrote > I too have a problem trying to find info / newsgroups on Netscape 6, so > tried the site Ashant recommended. > > You sure you got the right URL? > > Check out www.scotandrew

Re: 0.8.1

2001-03-22 Thread Gavin Long
> > In the roadmap it's said 0.8.1 release is scheduled to be on March 19. > > Since that date is already passed, what's the new program? > > I believe it's here: > ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-0.8.1/ > The files were updated on March 19th... I believe those are 0.8.1 CANDIDAT

Re: 0.8.1

2001-03-21 Thread Gavin Long
> In the roadmap it's said 0.8.1 release is scheduled to be on March 19. > Since that date is already passed, what's the new program? Thinking back to the 0.8 release , the "release" date is a bit of a best-case-scenario. The usual schedule for a milestone release is : 1) Wednesday : Freeze th

Re: Good job on M 0.7

2001-01-12 Thread Gavin Long
Michael Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 93lkme$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:93lkme$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Why does Mozilla use so much memory? Because, until quite recently, the main priority was getting everything working. Optimising (for speed or memory) was regarded as less important t

Re: Customize Sidebar: What's it do?

2000-11-27 Thread Gavin Long
Randall Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Is M18 from an earlier or later source code base? Earlier. > Can one install M18 or a nightly build on a machine that has NS6 and have > them coexist? Yes. -- gav Playing: TF 1.5 for Half-Life;